Research Catalog

Title

New perspectives on Moche political organization / Jeffrey Quilter and Luis Jaime Castillo B., editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
• Castillo, Luis Jaime.

Description

xv, 388 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Subject

• Mochica Indians > Politics and government
• Mochica Indians > Social conditions
• Mochica Indians > Religion
• Mochica Indians > Antiquities
• Social archaeology > Peru
• Power (Social sciences) > Peru > History > To 1500
• Religion and politics > Peru > History > To 1500
• Peru > Politics and government > To 1548
• Peru > Social conditions
• Peru > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Joanne Pillsbury -- Many Moche models : an overview of past and current theories and research on Moche political organization / Luis Jaime Castillo B. and Jeffrey Quilter -- Maya political structure as a possible model for the Moche / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Moche state religion : a unifying force in Moche political organization / Christopher B. Donnan -- Moche sociopolitical organization : rethinking the data, approaches, and models / Izumi Shimada -- Moche politics in the Jequetepeque Valley : a case for political opportunism / Luis Jaime Castillo B. -- Moche power and ideology at the El Brujo complex and in the Chicama Valley / Régulo Franco Jordán, César Gálvez Mora, and Segundo Vásquez Sánchez -- Theocracy and secularism : relationships between the temple and urban nucleus and political change at the Huacas de Moche / Santiago Uceda Castillo -- City planning and architecture in the analysis of Moche social formation / José Canziani Amico -- How Moche rulers came to power : investigating the emergence of the Moche political economy / Brian R. Billman -- Cultural assignations during the early intermediate period : the case of Huancaco, Virú Valley / Steve Bourget -- Moche political expansionism as viewed from Virú : recent archaeological work in the close periphery of a hegemonic city-state system / Jean-François Millaire -- Moche political organization in the Santa Valley : a case of direct rule through gradual control of the local population / Claude Chapdelaine -- Religion, ethnic identity, and power in the Moche world : a view from the frontiers / Krzysztof Makowski -- An outsider's reflections on Moche political organization / William L. Fash.

Call Number

JGF 10-202

ISBN

• 9780884023623 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0884023621 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009037790

OCLC

YBP 2009037790

Title

New perspectives on Moche political organization / Jeffrey Quilter and Luis Jaime Castillo B., editors.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2010.

Series

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-

Castillo, Luis Jaime.

Research Call Number

JGF 10-202